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Eventually, when that rope begins to get tugged too many times it creates tension between all the different working, economic, and social classes within the society. Currently in America, there are thousands upon thousands of people protesting the election of our next president. They are mostly being non-violent protest, shouting "Not My President"and "I will not stand for you". But at some point of a process the "non-violent" acts have somehow become violent. Smashing windows in Seattle, catching things on fire in Chicago, and even the beating of a man because he used his right to vote for whom he believed should have been president.
In today's society, people don't understand what symbolism is. Not standing for the pledge, burning a flag, or shouting "Not my president" isn't disrespectful to Donald Trump, it is disrespectful to all the people who fought for this country and died defending your right to smash all the windows you see in public, or burn all the flags that you can find. There are no such things as non-violent protest because they always escalated to become something more. The Boston Tea Party was where the phrase "No Taxation without Representation" came to